Kate Aronoff
Kate Aronoff is a fellow at Type Media Center, a Brooklyn-based writer covering climate and American politics, and a contributing writer to The Intercept. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Dissent, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Harpers, among other outlets. She was previously a writing fellow at In These Times. Kate is editing a forthcoming anthology about democratic socialism in America, set to be published by The New Press in 2020. She is also writing a book about the politics of climate change, The New Denialism, to be published by Bold Type Books, also in 2020.
Recent Highlights
Thunberg Is Right
Congress is ignoring science—and that includes Democrats.
By Kate Aronoff in The Guardian.
How Much Destruction Is Needed for Us to Take Climate Change Seriously?
Whether human civilization stays intact amid this worsening weather depends on recognizing our shared humanity — and designing policy accordingly.
By Kate Aronoff in the Guardian.
Bernie Sanders’s Climate Plan Is More Radical Than His Opponents’ — and More Likely to Succeed
If you tried to design a program with the aim of offending the top brass of the world’s most powerful corporations, you’d get something like Bernie Sanders’s Green New Deal platform.
By Kate Aronoff in the Intercept.
Some Economists Say Carbon Taxes Are a Silver Bullet. The Reality Is More Complicated.
A carbon tax isn’t a bad idea, but by itself could be politically dangerous.
By Kate Aronoff in In These Times.
An Interview with Yanis Varoufakis
The Democratic Field Is Crowded With C-listers
Relative nobodies like John Delaney and John Hickenlooper have taken up more airtime than the climate crisis during the debates. We deserve better.
By Kate Aronoff in the Guardian.
As Puerto Rico Erupts in Protests and Governor Resigns, “La Junta” Eyes More Power
Ricardo Rosselló announced his resignation July 24 amid massive protests on the island and around the world.
By Kate Aronoff in the Intercept.
America’s Red Scare Is Back, With a Racist Tinge
Condemnation of Democratic congresswomen is xenophobic, dangerous and flat-out false.
By Kate Aronoff in the Guardian.
Neoliberal Pundits Want to Write Off Bernie Sanders Again
The same media outlets that failed to predict Trump are pushing their status quo-friendly narrative on the Democratic race.
By Kate Aronoff in the Guardian.
The PowerPoint That Got A Climate Scientist Disinvited From A Shell Conference
The first three slides of climate scientist Peter Kalmus’s plenary speech to Shell’s Powering Progress Together conference were intended to gauge audience reactions.
By Kate Aronoff in the Intercept.
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